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Thursday, August 16, 1973

PRISON OFFICERS TO RECEIVE ONE YEAR'S BACK PAY

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Some 230 assistant prison officers class II, who were regraded

on August 1 last year from the old rank of warder, are to receive a

year's back pay.

Announcing this today, a government spokesman said that the

decision would benefit those officers who had earlier been unable to

show proof of their primary 6 education standard. All other officers

within the grade had already been paid from the effective date of their

regrading.

"Those who could not produce the required proof of educational

attainment were asked to sit for a departmental examination held in May

this year," he recalled. "The examination was designed to assess their

efficiency in carrying out responsibilities within the grade.

officers who passed the examination will now have their salaries readjustod

from the effective date of regrading."

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